KILLED IN ACTION
NEW ZEALAND CORRESPONDENT IN SOUTH PACIFIC. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) MELBOURNE, November 11. Mr Roydon Keith Palmer, a New Zealander who was the Melbourne “Herald” war correspondent in the South Pacific area, was killed in action during a Japanese bombing attack last Sunday. He was covering American operations on Bougainville as a frontline correspondent. Mr Palmer, who was 36, left a widow and two young children. He began his journalistic career in the Christchurch “Sun” in 1927, later joining the Christchurch “Press.” He joined the Melbourne “Herald” in 1936 and was regarded as the outstanding writer in Australia on aviation.
The Australian Newspaper Proprietors’ Association conference, paying tribute to Mr Palmer’s work, said that 1 his articles had added to the faithful and vivid battle reporting of the great group of war correspondents.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 November 1943, Page 3
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